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relative of G. inconspicua Dougl., and may be in some collec- 

 tions under that name. 



Lang'loisia punctata (Coville) 



Gilia setosissima pmictata Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 



t: 72. 1892. 

 Navarretia setosissima punctata Coville, Cont. U. S. Nat. 



Herb. 4: 154.//. 14- 1893. 

 The type was collected by Mr. Coville in Surprise Canon, 

 Panamint mountains, Inyo county, California, April 21, 1891, 

 No. 716 of the Death Valley Expedition. 



POLEMONIELLA 



Annual herb with weak spreading or ascending branches, 

 leafy and glandular throughout: leaves pinnate, lower leaflets 

 petiolate, the upper sessile with decurrent base: flowers scattered: 

 calyx prominently veined, open campanulate, 5-cleft to or be- 

 yond the middle, the segments lanceolate, entire, callous tipped: 

 corollas white, nearly rotate, small, not equalling the calyx, the 

 petals broadly obovate, shortly cuspidate, delicately veined: fila- 

 ments almost naked at base: capsule 8-io-seeded. 



Polemoniella micrantha (Benth.) 



Polemonium micranthum Benth. DC. Prod. 9: 318. 

 The writer has been acquainted with typical Polemoniiim 

 for a number of years, but when he first collected the plant 

 under discussion, had not the remotest idea that it could be re- 

 ferred to that genus. To my mind a plant which cannot be 

 generically placed in the field by one who has a considerable 

 acquaintance with genera and species from all parts of the coun- 

 try, cannot belong to a genus which he has hitherto easily rec- 

 ognized. Polemoniella differs from Polemonium in that it is 

 annual, has scattered solitary flowers instead of cymose panicles 

 or racemes, the flowers are small and inconspicuous, nearly rotate 

 in shape, included within the calyx, as opposed to showy, mostly 

 funnel-form corollas several times longer than the calyx, and 



